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==Tentative Future Plans==
==Tentative Future Plans==


My overall plan is to dump on you unsuspecting victims all (or at least most) of what I know which is relevant to the construction of an Algebraic Knot Theory so that at the end of this class you will in principle be as ready as I am to carry out independent research on the subject. There are some gaps in my own knowledge; if you don't read on your own, at the end you'll have the same ones too.
My overall plan is to dump on you unsuspecting victims all (or at least most) of what I know which is relevant to the construction of an Algebraic Knot Theory so that at the end of this class you will in principle be as ready as I am to carry out independent research on the subject. There are some gaps in my own knowledge; if you don't think on your own, at the end you'll have the same ones too.


===Today===
===Today===
* A discussion of grading policy.
A discussion of grading policy and of future plans, and then a long list of "I don't know"s regarding:
* A bit more about quotients, and especially, some discussion of [[The HOMFLY Braidor Algebra]].
* More about quotients, and especially, a discussion of [[The HOMFLY Braidor Algebra]].
* Ng's no-go theorem for ribbon knots ({{arXiv|q-alg/9502017}} and {{arXiv|math.GT/0310074}}) and the no-go theorems we still don't have (and with a lot of luck, we'll never have) about the fusion number, the unknotting number and the genus.
* Ng's no-go theorem for ribbon knots ({{arXiv|q-alg/9502017}} and {{arXiv|math.GT/0310074}}) and the no-go theorems we still don't have (and with a lot of luck, we'll never have) about the fusion number, the unknotting number and the genus.


===The Following Two Weeks - Weeks 5 and 6===
===The Following Two Weeks - Weeks 5 and 6===
The construction of <math>Z</math> following Kontsevich's Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov approach with the added wisdom of {{ref|Le_Murakami_97}} and {{ref|Murakami_Ohtsuki_97}}.
A construction of <math>Z</math> following Kontsevich's Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov approach with the added wisdom of {{ref|Le_Murakami_97}} and {{ref|Murakami_Ohtsuki_97}}.


===Week 7 and 8===
===Week 7 and 8===
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===Weeks 9 and 10===
===Weeks 9 and 10===
Back to the degree-by-degree approach.
Back to the degree-by-degree approach.
* The construction of <math>Z</math> using parenthesized tangles.
* A construction of <math>Z</math> using parenthesized tangles.
* "Gauge equivalence" and the near uniqueness of <math>Z</math>.
* "Gauge equivalence" and the near uniqueness of <math>Z</math>.
* What this all means in the language of knotted trivalent graphs.
* What this all means in the language of knotted trivalent graphs.

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Tentative Future Plans

My overall plan is to dump on you unsuspecting victims all (or at least most) of what I know which is relevant to the construction of an Algebraic Knot Theory so that at the end of this class you will in principle be as ready as I am to carry out independent research on the subject. There are some gaps in my own knowledge; if you don't think on your own, at the end you'll have the same ones too.

Today

A discussion of grading policy and of future plans, and then a long list of "I don't know"s regarding:

The Following Two Weeks - Weeks 5 and 6

A construction of following Kontsevich's Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov approach with the added wisdom of [Le_Murakami_97] and [Murakami_Ohtsuki_97].

Week 7 and 8

Back to the PBW theorem.

  • Proof and some variants.
  • Wheeling and the algebra morphism from to .

Weeks 9 and 10

Back to the degree-by-degree approach.

  • A construction of using parenthesized tangles.
  • "Gauge equivalence" and the near uniqueness of .
  • What this all means in the language of knotted trivalent graphs.

Weeks 11 through 13

Reserved.

  • Students lectures?
  • More on the relationship with Chern-Simons theory?
  • LMO, Århus and invariants of 3-manifolds?
  • Somethings else?

References

[Le_Murakami_97] ^  T. Q. T. Le and J. Murakami, Parallel Version of the Universal Vassiliev-Kontsevich Invariant, Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra 121 (1997) 271-291.

[Murakami_Ohtsuki_97] ^  J. Murakami and T. Ohtsuki, Topological Quantum Field Theory for the Universal Quantum Invariant, Communications in Mathematical Physics 188-3 (1997) 501-520.

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